Duos and Duets Later... with Jools Holland

STUDIO: Other BBC networks are joining us now, this is a reminder

of what we are watching, latest pictures coming to us from various

places in Paris. Multiple violent attacks have taken place, including

shootings. We know that explosions have happened outside of the Stade

de France, a friendly was taking place between France and Germany.

Bars and restaurants further into the heart of the city. We need to

speak again with Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield commonly made his way

a little while ago to the Bataclan, in the 11th Baron -- in the 11th

arrondissement. I have just spoken with an anvil and man, he has come

in from the Paris of with an anvil and man, he has come

from the palace of the site. He says he has no idea what is going to be

This is a very trendy and young arrived. --

This is a very trendy and young area, lots of people have been out,

warm evening, people on the streets, enjoying very pleasant early

November evening, and at this concert Hall, the Bataclan, it is

Eagles of Death Metal that were playing earlier, a well-known

Californian band. And yes, if it is true that the bulk of people are

inside, held hostage, this is absolutely frightful. You are pretty

close to this concert Hall, you are being kept back to a certain extent.

Probably 100, 200 metres from it, I am on a boulevard, the main road...

Just around the corner, down the side street. I can see a line of

police vehicles all the way down. Every now and again, we are told to

budge, and ambulances are going through. It is the 200 metres

distance... And we had the exposure. It is very difficult to make

anything else -- did very difficult to make anything out. Muse will have

reached you of what the president was saying when you're dressed

France. The state of emergency, the fact that the borders are to be

closed. -- what the president was saying when he addressed France. How

is all of this new is going down? A couple of mobile phones went when he

was speaking, couple of mobile phones went when he

political staff, really. It is significant, what you said. The

first time since the Algerian War that the whole of

first time since the Algerian War been in a state of emergency. In the

first time since the Algerian War riots of 2005, parts of the country

were under a state of emergency, but this is the whole of the country.

That is unprecedented. Those in the Borders. In a sense, that was

coming, because of the climate conference, kicking off in a couple

of weeks. That was the stage where they feared there would be a

potential terrorist attack, and the closing of the Borders, the

suspension of Schengen, was going to come in in preparation for that. But

clearly, this has been eclipsed by this. The mood is... It is an eerie

mood, wandering around, it was just sinking in. I saw one woman on the

unease crying, because she had just heard that her friend was in the

Bataclan concert hall during the concert, and then all of the bars,

they kind of shut. The blinds are half down, people inside looking

out, some have been told not to move but they are edging out, looking on

the streets. There have been altercations between locals,

wondering what is going on, probably not realising the gravity of the

situation, and saying to the police, what is going on? The police have

been aggressive back. It is very eerie. Especially when there is this

message to the police as well, saying, the whole of the Paris

region, the whole region, stay at home, is the message from the

police. That is a staggering piece of advice. It is like telling the

Home Counties to stay at home because we do not know what has gone

on! It was a little like that in the Charlie Hebdo events, but this is

worse! This is more big and more random. And therefore so much more

frightening. Thank you very much, with the latest from close to the

Bataclan concert Hall, he says he is 200 metres away, cannot quite see

the building but we are aware from these pictures, how much activity

there has been, he says it appears to be the status quo, he has not

seen people leaving. We understand 100 people have

seen people leaving. We understand in the Bataclan after an attack,

gunmen, multiple gunmen, stormed the building.

Widdowson the studio is the director of security services at the Royal

Institute in London. You have sat patiently through these developments

that we are trying to get patiently through these developments

with coming out of Paris. Your initial observation? I think it is

difficult to know what we are looking at at this point. What we

know for certain is we are dealing with a call would Arnie attack

involving multiple targets and one suspects multiple individuals using

what appeared to be automatic weapons and explosives, all of which

require training and preparation, so I think we can pretty confidently

say that this had been prepared for some time. Across multiple

locations, and it could be as many as six or seven, we are hearing,

coordinated in your view? I think so. What we don't know is how all of

these incidents are connected. Are we dealing with people who are

jumping on the moment and deciding this is the moment they should

strike, or people who are mobile and running around the city. We have to

think about this, if we look back to the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier

this year, I think it is possible we should also look back to the Mumbai

attacks in 2008 as an early example of this, where we had a group of

attackers targeting the city going from target to target, shooting as

they could, blowing themselves up and ultimately holing themselves up

in one place to fight to the death. Reuters are saying that the police

operation at the Bataclan concert theatre where we understand up to

100 people are being held hostage, that operation is now over. We hope

to get more details from the police when they are in a position to

explaining Saky what has been going on inside that holding which was

packed on a Friday night. There was a heavy metal concert taking place,

a band playing from California. The British Foreign Office is advising

that people who have concerns about reduced friends or relatives in

Paris have a number to call. It is a London number, the main switchboard,

and I will repeat it a couple of times for you. Apologies if you are

watching abroad. The number is 0207 0081500. That is further assistance

for people who are concerned about friends or relatives who may be in

Paris. This is for British friends or relatives who the Foreign Office

can help with. If you need to get that number

again, I imagine it will now be on the British Foreign Office website.

With us to try to to discuss this is Raffaello Pantucci from the Security

Institute. They are deploying officers to French government

locations in the United States, notably New York City, an obvious

thing to do, but worth repeating. Certainly it is. In other major

cities there will immediately be concerned about the possibility of a

copycat incident or some other sort of attack,, or it is a show of

strength, and people will be alarmed that this could happen to them. It

is as much to show the people that they are out there and will defend

what they can. Raffaello, stay with us. We are looking into this

multifaceted story which is unfolding. Our correspondent is on

the ground, can you tell us what you are hearing?

Just behind me is the Bataclan concert hall where the hostages are

being held, and we are told that the assault has been ongoing there. We

have heard some gunfire, a lot of police and security forces have been

cordoning off this road, and we are told that the assault is under way.

We have had reports that the assault is over. Often here in the studio we

can get a clear overview then you can on the scene. How many members

of the public are out and about? We have been reporting that the mayor

of Paris has said that the city is in lockdown, do not go out.

That has been the advice given, and behind me as a small crowd of

onlookers waiting at a police cordon, and we have seen several

people wandering around. One thing to say is that this area would

normally be packed at midnight on a Friday night, and it is almost

deserted. Eerily empty streets, just a small gaggle of people try to find

out what is going on in their city. And what are they saying to you

about what they understand in Paris tonight? We have heard the statement

from President Hollande that this is the most significant series of

terror attacks that they have had in France, and it comes after the

events in January of Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket.

I think the fact that so many people are staying away and staying indoors

tells you the level of fear that is here in the city tonight just ten

months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. We have these attacks that

shows some similar hallmarks, attacks with guns on soft targets,

if you like. And a hostage situation, explosives being used. It

will bring back painful memories for people here in Paris, and the

streets here tonight are certainly pretty quiet. There are a lot of

questions people want answered. Lucy Williamson, thank you very much. She

is at the 11th hour and he Williamson, thank you very much. She

the 11th arrondissement. And north-east, in the 10th

arrondissement, this footage appears to show the aftermath of one of the

attacks, and you may find it distressing. You can see the

emergency services in the background who came to the scene pretty fast,

we understand from who came to the scene pretty fast,

police cordon put up very quickly after what witnesses said

police cordon put up very quickly men armed with Kalashnikov assault

rifles who fired diners through the plate glass windows, and the result

will multiple casualties. There were reports of people outside the

restaurant Syriza injured. This is just one of these multiple

locations. -- seriously injured. We are hearing there maybe six or seven

locations around Paris, and to the furthest out appears to be Saint

Denis where a bar near to the Stade De France witnessed an explosion.

Just a reminder that Raffaello Pantucci from the Royal United

services Institute in London is here with us now. Where does France go

from here? We already know from the beginning of the year various places

around Paris, there were increased security presences, the Army seen on

the street quite regularly, and people got used to that. What more

do they do? I think you will have a lot of questions being asked in

France about what more they have to do at this point. You have seen the

tempo of attacks and disruptive plots and actual assaults

tempo of attacks and disruptive in France going up to quite a

substantial number. The question about what the police can do next,

you will see the revisiting a lot of their case files, trying to pick

people up who they were concerned about, who were less of a priority

and now will become a greater priority. There will be military

have to be put on the streets to deploy at sites to act as protection

and to a comfort for the people to show them that security can be

stepped up. But it is a difficult call. Jens

Stoltenberg, the general secretary of Nato, has said that terrorists

will never destroy democracy, carry on with your life, but if you have

the army out on the streets, that does change things. It depends what

they are doing. If you go to Brussels, you will have seen heavily

armed soldiers standing outside most of the official buildings around the

city. And quite frankly, on my many visits there, I didn't see people

acting any differently because of it. It is intimidating but it seems

to be the way the threat picture has gone. The difficulty comes if you

see an exaggerated crack on broader communities and the victimisation

and social tensions but that can cause. That is the damage which can

be irreparable to societies. And the closing of the borders to

prevent more people leaving or arriving, we just don't know how

long that could be in place, or for what reason it might be used as this

being the thing that prompts France to reconsider how it polices its

borders. I think when you take this on the

current refugee crisis, it would not surprise me if you start to see

quite serious questions about the Schengen zone and free movement. We

saw some of this discussion already this year when there was the

attempted attack on the Italian train going to France. And there was

a discussion about whether we need police trains on the continent more.

Do we need to set up stronger borders and would that be

preventative? It is difficult to know, that there is certainly this

question of free movement around the continent being something which

security forces across Europe are going to be looking at a very

seriously and wondering if it will continue. Just a couple of days

ago, authorities across the continent disrupted a large network

of people associated with a terrorist group, a Kurdish jihadi

group in northern Iraq which had a network of people across Europe. We

saw good cross-border European co-operation, but the reason you had

to have this was because the threat picture was going in that

direction, with people really across multiple countries.

Let me just bring you up-to-date with a couple of new lines that have

come in to us. We understand the police assault that was under way at

the Bataclan concert Hall in Paris is now over. The police are being

quoted here by the press Association saying that there were hostages

being held, the reports earlier were that up to 100 people were held

hostage, we need to have that fully confirmed, but the reports are that

French forces have killed at least two attackers during that assault on

the Bataclan concert hall in the 11th arrondissement. And separately,

the United Nations Security Council have condemned what they describe as

the cowardly and barbaric attack in Paris. They want to bring the

perpetrators of these acts to justice. President Hollande has

cancelled his participation at the G20 meeting which is taking place in

Turkey this weekend. I do believe we have got some mobile phone footage

of what was happening outside the Bataclan concert fitter, and I.

Speaking because you can hear shots fired and explosions.

GUNFIRE. A couple of explosions and then some

sort of gunfire as well. We understand according to a Reuters

reporter at the scene of that siege that we were just looking at footage

of, the assault was launched by elite police unit at the concert

hall where those assailants have been holding people hostage. I

believe that we had elite units out in January on the streets of Paris

in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings during the couple of

days when the gun men were on the run. Raffaello Pantucci is briefly

here with us from the Royal United services Institute. They have

wrought in real specialists to deal with they would. When you are

looking at this sort of an operation and people using automatic weapons

and explosives, you have to send in special forces. I suspect their

desire was to close down the hostage situation as soon as possible, if

you are dealing with able who are clearly intends to kill as many as

they can, you want to prevent them from doing that any more, and moving

in strong would be unnecessary. The Charlie Hebdo attack was clearly a

wake-up call for French authorities, and it is worth remembering soon

after that a plot was disrupted across the border in Belgium with

groups who appeared to have explosive devices in police

uniforms, under suspicion was they were planning a large attack in

Brussels that could have been shaped by this. There was a heavy police

assault there that ended up in a big shoot out, but it was a very live

and dynamic terrorist incident. They have had a lot to cope with

this year, France and their various authorities. Stay with us if you

would, because on the line now we are joined by a jazz musician who

was performing at a restaurant close to where one of these attacks

happened. Leo, thank you for joining us here. Tell us where you were.

To be honest with you, I am not sure exactly what I was close to and what

I was not close to, it has been so difficult to really receive any

accurate information here, just as difficult here as it is anywhere. I

was performing at a jazz club called the Sunset. There was a murmur that

went through the crowd that something was going on. We continue

to play for a while, then we took a break. On the break, we still had

not decided whether or not it made sense to continue playing. Somebody

showed me a cell phone notification that there had been a shooting, very

close by, really. It seemed almost impossible to continue playing a

concert under those conditions. We carefully encouraged people to

calmly go home, and I did the same thing. In an apartment nearby now.

Do you know what is happening outside? We understand there is

pretty much a lockdown in the city, and the mayor of Paris has said,

don't go anywhere. You might be best to stay where you are. That was the

sense. In fact, when the first new is kind of hit, we were thinking,

maybe it made sense to stay where we were. Within 20 minutes of the

initial indication, the streets emptied. There is nobody on the

street. Where are you getting information from? I'm getting it

from the Internet, international Muse media.

In the last five minutes, it has begun to harsh, there was a kind of

military din armour but it is now hushed. It is difficult to get an

overview. Before this evening, you may spend time in France but you are

yourself not French, what has the atmosphere been like? Before

tonight? I would say that it has been lovely, I have been here for

ten days and it has been sunny and wonderful. Actually, unusually

pleasant for this time of year. I have not had any sense of discomfort

or sense of lack of security for my safety in any way. It has been a

very positive autumn. There has been increased security throughout the

year because of the events of January, Charlie Hebdo, it has not

put you off visiting France, despite the grave issues we have seen? It is

true, this is my fourth trip to France this year to perform, I come

under a very nonpolitical circumstance, I come to perform. I

do not necessarily perceive the cultural feeling through that

filter. But you are right, it has been a difficult year for France,

and we feel it a little bit, from my perspective, it has also been a very

positive year culturally, for me. So it is an interesting question. I

assume it is from the United States that you are visiting. Yes.

You think there is a greater threat to Europe and the US? Good question,

I do not think that I would be able to say that I feel

I do not think that I would be able there is a greater threat, but I

would say that there is a greater threat, but I

familiar to me from 2001, in the United States. I had not felt that

in Europe as an American until now. In that sense, I feel that there is

something related, now, that I have not felt before, we will have to

look at this in the light of day in order to know whether there is a

greater threat, at this moment, I would say, yes I feel that. Thank

you very much for speaking We were reporting a few moments ago

that the police assault using the elite forces at the Bataclan concert

theatre in the 11th arrondissement is now over and there were reports

that the theatre-goers who had been held hostage had started to leave

the theatre, however, we understand through Reuters newsagency, quoting

the PFM television in France, that about 100 people are thought to have

died inside the Bataclan. Earlier we had heard that 15 people had been

shot, and then 100 people had been held hostage. -- BFM. It would

appear that those figures were a lot higher.

A shocking figure. Not surprising, if you recall, the events of the

last few hours, the special unit of the French Armed Forces stormed the

theatre very quickly, that was their decision, meaning that they were

fearing, in any case, a huge number of casualties, because we are

confronting... We are confronted with killers who are ready to die.

There were reports of grenades within the theatre. You can imagine

what a grenade does in a confined space. 100 dead is what the French

newspaper is reporting. According to the AFP newsagency, three suspected

jihadists, is how they are being described, certainly people who were

armed, were killed when the elite police stormed the venue. Another

newsagency has it as two armed attackers. It is a very great risk.

A calculation that the authorities have to make. When they storm the

building of this size. I think they knew that the killers were ready to

die. It is not a traditional hostage crisis, when you negotiate, when you

release people... Throughout the day... You can take hours, as you

know. The fact that they decided to strike almost immediately meant that

the situation was extremely grave. It is very difficult here to know

how these different acts of violence across multiple locations, perhaps

as many as... How do they fit together? We will know that in due

time. Obviously it looks very coordinated. Did it take many

different cells? Just one? Was there a trigger effect? You were with me

in the studio earlier, while you have been outside, I assume you have

been speaking with a lot of people in France. What have people been

telling you? A sense of shock, some measures that France has not seen in

decades, a state of emergency. I had a friend on an aeroplane who had

just landed in Paris and the pilot said, we do not know whether you

will be able to get out. All school trips are cancelled throughout

France. We can now speak with Freedom Jackson, in her apartment

just two doors away from the Bataclan. Thank you for joining us,

you must have had the most terrifying evening, tell us what you

have been going through. A lot of crying. I was making dinner, I heard

a girl outside screaming, and a couple of men sounded like they were

having a fight, sounded like the usual tried a night fighting in

Paris, as it happens. It was really aggressive, I closed my window

because I did not want to hear it, went to my room. I could hear a girl

screaming for help, the last thing I heard her say was screaming for a

man called Felipe and I heard a bang, and I thought it was not a

gunshot because that is not really happen. I was very scared because

people began screaming, people were shouting. Sounded really aggressive

outside. I stayed in Myron, spoke with my friends, I have only been

living here for a couple of months, I am 18. It is a change for me. I

was on the telephone to my friend, he could hear the rounds of gunfire,

while I was on the phone to me. He told me, you cannot leave your room

at all. Just after that, looked at venues, and saw that it was all

happening next door. There was loads of gunfire again. Loads of people

screaming. I decided of gunfire again. Loads of people

to go and stay in my neighbour's flat, because I was too scared to

stay alone. What were you able to see outside the window, you are not

very far from the Bataclan. This is where the hostagetaking was

happening. You can see the police surrounding the area, the police are

wearing protective outfits, with Shields on their face. They are

circling the building. We have heard that there has been a hundred people

who have died as a result of that siege. The advice we are hearing

from the mayor of Paris is that nobody should be going anywhere, I

should assume you will be following that closely? I'm quite happy on the

sixth floor, in the sky. Not being anywhere near anyone. I do not want

to go anywhere near what is going on. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can

stay with my aunt for the weekend, going to Versailles, because I do

not want to be so close to it. Perfectly understandable, Freedom,

thank you for speaking with us, stay with that neighbour, keep safe. The

latest that we are hearing. 100 people are thought to have died

inside the Bataclan, they have gone there, busy Friday night, packed

venue, to watch a band from California, a rock band, and we

understand that attackers, possibly two, maybe three, maybe even more,

stormed the building, shots were fired, and within the last few

minutes, really, we have heard that those that survived that attack have

been making their way out that concert Hall. The French president,

Francois Hollande, was on television a little earlier tonight to tell the

nation that terrorist attacks were underway. On an unprecedented scale.

He announced a state of emergency and a closure of the borders of the

country. TRANSLATION: To did decisions will be taken, a state of

emergency, certain places will be shut off, traffic may be banned from

some places and searches will be conducted across the whole Paris

region. -- two decisions will be taken. A state of emergency will be

declared across the whole territory. The second decision I

have taken it to close the borders, we must make certain that nobody is

going to enter to carry out any acts, whatever they may be, and make

sure that those that have committed the crimes will be apprehended,

should they leave the territory. That was the French president,

Francois Hollande, speaking a little earlier, to the French people on

television. We are getting unconfirmed reports... I must stress

these are unconfirmed reports... From social media... That the camp

known as the jungle in Calais, which is home to many migrants trying to

make their way across the Channel, that that camp is on fire. -- The

Jungle. Is that this could be a revenge attack. I would urge you to

take that with a huge amount of caution. -- the suspicion is that

Social media suggesting that the Jungle camp in Calais is on fire,

and it is only a suggestion, that it is a possible revenge attack.

and it is only a suggestion, that it also just reading an social media,

Reuters saying that the French Foreign Ministry is saying that

airports will remain open, that flights and trains will continue

running, which is slightly confusing, because we have also

heard that the borders are closing, the land borders, supposedly. We

will need a full explanation of how flights and trains can keep running

across borders unless these are just internal flights and trains. We need

to have that explained to us. Let's speak to Hugh Schofield who joins us

from Paris now. And a reminder that you were 200 metres from the

Bataclan concert Hall. We understand that the siege is over, but with a

high number of casualties. I don't know anything about casualties, and

as I speak, we are waiting at a police line for the prosecutor Paris

to come and talk to us, and he will give us the detail of what has

happened. I know that there are ports circulating that you are

seeing more quickly than I am of a high number of casualties, and I

can't comment on that. There is certainly the sense that this is

over here, because the atmosphere is more relaxed, and a plainclothes

policeman is saying that they will be a press conference coming up. I

understand that officials are in the area touring the places where the

attacks have happened and talking to police, and I'm hoping that one of

them will be the prosecutor and might talk to us. One does sense

that it is over, and now it is a question of working out what had

happened, what the toll is, and then the big questions about what this

all means. Tell us what you're seeing now, because obviously the

mayor of Paris sometime ago advised people across the whole of the Paris

region, huge area of France, to stay indoors, but people who are

trapped, trying to get out of the Bataclan concert theatre, they have

to get home. In the bars all around here, you can see that there are

people behind the shutters just waiting. I think in practice it is

loosening up and people are coming out and moving on now. The immediate

area around Bataclan is still very much locked down, but we are quite a

way back now. They pushed it back, and I think that those words to

people in the Paris region, to stay at home, was very much in the heat

of the moment when nobody knew what was happening. I think perhaps

already they will feel that something terrible has happened, but

that it has happened, and there aren't others on the loose, and this

sense of siege will ease off. I can't really judge where we are in

that process right now. They think they have tagged all the

terrorists, and therefore what has been completed, or whether they

think more people are on the loose. I just don't know.

Hugh, thank you very much. Lucy Williamson is another one of our

correspondents in Paris tonight. You also not very far from the Bataclan

concert Hall. What are you hearing? The Bataclan concert Hall is behind

us and we know that the assault is finished now. We're getting reports

that some attackers have been killed in the assault, but we are also

getting early reports from the French news agency here that maybe

100 hostages have been killed in the attack here, so we are awaiting

confirmation, but if true, that will be a very to build for France to

swallow, and a very difficult thing for the president who we believe is

touring this area at the moment, or shortly, a very difficult thing for

him to overcome and to try and instil a sense of security going

forward. A huge risk, even when elite forces are sent in to try to

end a siege like this, it must be a hugely difficult call for the

authorities to know what to do. Sieges like this are no tourists are

difficult, trying to safeguard hostages' lives whilst diminish the

threat. We don't know at what stage the casualties denied happened or

who was responsible, so I think as with everything that has happened

here tonight, it is far too early to get a forensics sense of how things

unfolded. At the moment, the authorities here are still at the

stage of counting the dead, trying to lock down the rest of the

capital, and making sure they have got everybody they can in the

network who has carried out these attacks.

We will pause for a second, because there is a suggestion that... It was

being reported an social media that there were pictures of a fire at the

camp known as the Jungle in Calais. It does appear that these were old

pictures that came from some time ago, and I did warn that we needed

to treat those reports with utmost care, because we needed to have it

confirmed, and it does appear that those pictures were old and not

pertinent to tonight or anything that has been happening in Paris. So

we will set those to one side. A reminder, though, that the police

are appealing an social media for tonight's, for anyone with any

information about any of the attacks on the seven locations we know of so

far to contact them. Clearly there are multiple eyewitnesses to what

has happened, because there seems to have been a multifaceted and

coordinated attack. Lucy Williamson is still with us live from Paris.

And now, Lucy, the country is in lockdown, a state of emergency and

the borders are supposed to be closed. What is that going to mean

to you believe France? I think it was resident Hoiland's initial

reaction to a situation that very few people understood tonight. As

you said, he said that France was facing a series of terrorist attacks

that were unprecedented here, and as you said, he called for a state of

emergency, announced a state of emergency and also an assault on the

building behind me, and yes, he has said that the borders of the country

will be closed to prevent the attackers fleeing. And he also

called for military reinforcements. Since the Charlie Hebdo events of

January, there was a greater presence of security on the streets.

Will that be ratcheted up now, then? I think if the number of dead

that we are hearing here is confirmed, this is really a game

changer for France, and something that will call for really quite

radical perhaps thinking on how France can protect itself after the

Charlie Hebdo attacks there was security, security was ramped up all

across vulnerable sites, but the trouble with attacks like this is

that often happen on soft targets, restaurant, a concert hall, places

that are difficult to protect nationwide, so I think that will be

the challenge facing the government in the days to come. After Charlie

Hebdo, there were a couple of days where the gunmen in those shootings

were on the run. We appear to have multiple attackers who the police

need to trace. The city is going to be a difficult place to be the next

days. That's right. There are several attackers that police are

trying to find the moment, and obviously a great deal of fear in

Paris as their whereabouts remain unknown. It raises very painful

memories of the attacks ten month ago when Charlie Hebdo was attacked,

the siege of the Jewish supermarket and the tense days but unfolded as

police tried to chase and find everyone involved in those attacks,

and I think the next few days will be very worrying one the people here

in Paris and further afield. Is a great deal of noise behind you.

I just want to make sure that you are OK, you are safe, you can maybe

turn around and tell us what you conceive. I'm not exactly sure what

is going on behind me, but there are great deal of onlookers who have

gathered here, and I think this may be that a skirmish has broken out

the onlookers or perhaps with the police, but there are a great deal

of security forces here and some onlookers here on the street late at

night. Lucy, we will let you go and

investigate what is happening around you. For the moment, thank you very

much. Lucy Williamson near the Bataclan concert Theatre where that

assault by police led to a number of bebop being held hostage -- a number

of people who were being held hostage and a number of casualties.

A man called Ben Grimes was at the belly keep restaurant when it was

attacked. We thought it was some people in cars with firearms. It was

a lot of people, and we would being led out by police. There were a lot

of dead people, it was pretty difficult. I was at the back of the

bar so I couldn't see anything, I just heard the gunshots, and people

drop to the ground. just heard the gunshots, and people

up in the bar because I had to protect my wife. As we were led out,

it looks like there was still at least seven dead people outside. The

amount of least seven dead people outside. The

was huge. There were loads of people hanging outside having treatment.

was huge. There were loads of people was really full, in the bar, and we

were lucky to be all-weather back. Ben Grimes was in one of the

restaurants that Ben Grimes was in one of the

earlier this evening. And the President of the United States,

Barack Obama, has been talking about this as well. Those who think that

they can terrorise the people of France or the values that

they can terrorise the people of for are wrong. The American people

drawstring from the French people's for are wrong. The American people

commitment to life. The pursuit of happiness, and we are reminded in

this time of liberty, a happiness, and we are reminded in

French people care deeply about and values that we share. And those

value s go far beyond any act of terrorism.

value s go far beyond any act of condolences and words of support to

the French people. I world affairs correspondent Richard Galpin is

here. correspondent Richard Galpin is

and look back correspondent Richard Galpin is

multifaceted attack by a number of people in several locations in Paris

tonight. They are saying that this is the worst attack Paris has

suffered in decades, perhaps even going back as far as the Second

World War. What we know is that at least a hundred people have been

killed, and this concert was packed tonight. There have also been

attacks outside the Stade de France where the president was attending a

football match between France and Germany. Then win over sure that

there have Germany. Then win over sure that

restaurant and a bar and possibly other locations as well. According

to some reports that have been attacks in at least seven different

locations, and standing back from it, what

locations, and standing back from this was

locations, and standing back from they saw the gunman opening fire,

locations, and standing back from the magazines then ran out, they

locations, and standing back from weapons, fired again on several

occasions, so these are people weapons, fired again on several

doing. And came well equipped for the violence that they were intent

on perpetrating. You mentioned the death toll. A Paris City Hall

official being quoted by Reuters is saying that about 100 people were

killed at the Bataclan concert Hall, and the belief is that about 40

other people died in the other locations where we have seen these

attacks tonight. There have also been reports that two, possibly

three attackers were killed by this elite police unit that went in to

try to bring an end to this siege. This leaves France with an enormous

concern over what they do now, in the next few days. We saw the

reaction in terms of increased security in the days and weeks after

Charlie Hebdo earlier in the year. And more immediately, there are

still several gunmen still on the loose. As you say, maybe two or

three have been killed at the Bataclan, but the other gunman, we

assume that they are still around, in Paris, and the police will be

doing everything they can to try and track them down, but the question of

security in Paris for the next few days is going to be absolutely huge.

And one thing we also have to remember is that after the Charlie

Hebdo attacks in Paris back in January which were absolutely

horrific at the time, President Hollande promised they would improve

security to prevent these kind of attacks happening again, and here we

are nine or ten months later, and we have had an even more serious

attack. We need early reports to be

confirmed but there is a lot of information coming in. Charlie Pitt

is a freelance photographer, and he was only a few yards from where

people were shot at a bar. 75 metres from a cafe, it was hit about

9:10pm, I had been to a supermarket. I got 30 metres, and then I thought

it was a firecracker to start off with and it went on, it got louder.

Everybody said, dive for cover, they realised it was gunfire, it went on

for a minute, then there was a pause for 15